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0. SHOETTLE. DEVICE FOR PROTECTING THE FAIR STITGHING ON SHOES DURING TREEING.

No. 425,088. Patented Apr. 8, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

CHARLES SHOETTLE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE SCHEIDLER, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR PROTECTING THE FAIR-STITCHING ON SHOES DURING IREEING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,088, dated April 8, 1890.

Application filed June 21, 1889. Serial N0.3l5,050- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES SHOETTLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Device for Protecting the Fair-Stitching 011 Shoes During Treeing,which is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a shoe having my invention applied to it, the same being shown broken away to disclose the protected stitching underneath. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan of the device detached from the shoe. Fig. 3 is a section at the line 3 3 on Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a section at the line 4 4 on Fig. 2.

The purpose of this invention is to cover the margin of the sole of a shoe which projects beyond the upper and is stitched onto the Welt, in order to prevent the fair-stitching which there appears from being stained or soiled by the dye or blacking which is applied to the upper in the finishing process called treeing. Heretofore this has been accomplished only by use of great care in applying the dye, and consequently at the ex pense of the increased time made necessary by the use of such extreme care, with the further disadvantage that no amount of care is sufficient to entirely prevent occasional staining of the stitching, and that in order to avoid it all the operator must avoid the attempt to apply the dye thoroughly to the upper in the seam or junction of the latter wit-h the welt.

My device by completely covering the fairstitching makes it possible for the operator to apply the dye utterly regardless of the presence of the stitching, and therefore to apply it thoroughly and rapidly, even in the seam.

The device consists of a shield comprised, preferably, of two pieces A A, hinged together at the toe at A said shields being angleshaped, having one flange wide enough to cover the projecting margin of the sole, and the other, which is not a necessity, though desirable, operating merely to stiffen the device and as a stop overhanging the edge of the sole. This shield is made of light sheet metal, so that the edge of the flange a which covers the fair-stitching is thin enough to be readily forced under the infolded upper, between it and the welt, thereby protecting the projecting margin of the sole as far in as necessary, even to thestitching which unites it to the upper.

The two pieces A and A are made to approximately correspond, respectively, to the contour of the inner and outer edges of the sole, and are preferably connected at their rear ends, the connecting parts extending un- ,derneath the sole, and for that purpose from the rear end of each of said parts of the shields a bracket A depends and extends from its lower end inward, reaching under the sole. To the inner ends of each of these brackets at a there is connected, preferably by pivotal connection, a link A said links being connected at their proximate ends by a springA tending to draw them together. As a convenient form of this spring-connection and means of supporting it, I provide the guide B, which is a thin rectangular sleeve, into the two ends of which the two links A telescope toward each other, one side of the sleeve having the slot B, through which the hooked ends a of the links A protrude and receive the two ends of the spring A*, which is supported upon the arm B which projects from the sleeve B transversely to its length at about the middle thereof, and has the stud B near the extreme end, about which the spring A is coiled, and by which it is sustained in place. This connection, while permitting the rear ends of the shields A A to be separated more or less, as the width of the shoe to which it is applied may require, still keeps said ends in their proper relation, permitting only slight change of position longitudinally; but by reason of the fact that the connections at A and a are all pivotal the device is considerably flexible, whereby it is more easily applied to soles of slightly different shapes. It is designed, however, that in use in a factory a sufficient number of these devices would be provided, so that it should not be necessary, as indeed it would not be easily possible, to apply the same device to shoes greatly differing in shape or size.

I claim- 1. The device for protecting fair-stitching in shoes, consisting of a pair of metal shields having horizontal flanges corresponding in shape approximately to the protecting-margin of the sole, and adapted to be inserted over the same and under the upper during the process of treeing and to cover such protecting-niargin of the sole, leaving the upper exposed, such shields being hinged together at the toe and separably connected together at the rear part, said connecting parts being adapted to extend underneath the sole, substantially as set forth.

2. The device for protecting fair-stitching in shoes, consisting of the pair of shields hinged together at the toe and having horizontal flanges corresponding in shape approximately to the projecting margin of the sole and adapted to be inserted over the same and in under the upper during the process of treeing, and to cover such protectingqnargin, leaving the upper exposed and elastically connected at the rear ends, said connection being adapted to extend underneath the sole, substantially as set forth.

3. In a device for protecting fair-stitching in shoes, the shields A and A, hinged together at the toe and having downwardlyprojecting brackets A at the rear end, and an elastic connection between the lower ends of said down\vardly-projecting brackets, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4-. In a device for protecting fair-stitching in shoes, in combination with the shields A and A, hinged together at the toe and provided at their rear ends with downwardlyprojecting brackets A the links A, pivotally connected to said brackets and extended toward each other and elastically connected, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a device for protecting fair-stitching in shoes, the shields A A, hinged together at the toe and provided at their rear end with the brackets A the links A pivoted to said brackets, respectively, the sleeve 15, receiving said links, and the spring A elastically connecting the hinges, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. In a device for protecting the fair-stitching in shoes, in combination with the shields A and A,hinged together at the toe and provided with the brackets A, the links A", pivoted to the said brackets, respectively, the sleeve B, receiving said links and having the transversely-projecting arm B and the spring A, supported by said arm and elastically connecting the ends of said links, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two witnesses, at Chicago, Illinois, this 13th day of June, 1889.

CHARLES SIIOET'ILE.

Witnesses:

JAMES McGnA'rTY, CHAS. S. BURTON. 

